Creating a Soundscape Reflection

  The art of sound design has never fallen short of daunting for myself. Inundated by white noice, I have forgetten to listen to the world around me. The moment any past professor would suggest that our class should, “Close your eyes and open your ears,” was the moment I would submit to my timidity. To unpack this fear, one must first understand my intimidation: entering uncharted territory. I fell short to the notion that I was not capable of creating a replication of the world around me from nothing, but isn’t this the freedom we artists thrive in? So, why am I choosing a realm of repetitivity and shying away from new and fresh opportunities for artistic growth/articulation?
        I am continuously evolving who I am as a filmmaking artist and poet. The process of this evolution its one that allows myself to accept the vulnerability of attaining the “beginner” status.  I think for as long as I live, I will continue on to evolve and expand upon who I am as a human being through my status of a filmmaking artist and poet. The moment I believe I have stopped growing is a self-inflicted failure because there is a beauty in this discomfort.
       The beauty in this discomfort- creating a soundscape- has permitted me to escape the cinematic world I feel apprehensive about, narrative filmmaking, and allowed me to stumble upon a safe haven in the realm of expressionistic sensibility. Like a sudden flash of lightning, ideas and solutions seemingly appeared out of nowhere. By eliminating the physical space in which this action of our soundscape could occur, we eliminated the image that was attached to our title, “He Who Hurls Themselves Once More Upon A Rosebush.” I wanted to conceptualize a soundscape that is one with the inner mind and the internal evolution of thought (exposition, rising action, climbs, falling action, and denouement). In this world outside my comfort zone, I was granted freedom from my inner critic to further develop my sound designing skills. I improved upon my sound post-production skills by creating a multi-layered sound design in Adobe Premiere whilst utilizing pitch shifters (both low and high precisions) as well as making sound use of the parametric equilizer.



NOTES TO SELF:

• You are capable of creating a replication of the world around you from nothingness. 
• You are an expressionistic artist-- utilize this to your advantage.
• Why are you choosing a realm of repetitivity and shying away from new and fresh opportunities for artistic growth/articulation?
•  You will continue to evolve and expand upon who you are a filmmaker; it is a lifelong process.